Deseret Evening News | 1910-04-18 | Page 11 | Lack of Imagination in Children

Lack of Imagination In Children of the tb saddest ddt signs sign of the I v times time is 1 I the decay day of ot Imagination In children A lamentable feature of our complex pl x social Ial lit for om som time i iha Ihas ha has been the craving for expensive and artificial pleasures and this sign 1 of ef et effete effete fete tete mentality I ion ia appearing now even enn evenIn evenin In children Children are no longer lo willing to en aIt enjoy enjoy joy simple pl pleasure and nd It I to not difficult to account for tor the reason for forby forb forby by b Inheritance they thery have bave come Into a veritable kingdom of ot wants want Motors expensive dresses dr trips tripe abroad broad an n In Inordinate inordinate ordinate desire for far variety In attire atUN and elaborate food toad are at all part par of at th the regime which we live hive In la according M as Mour our OW mean m permit The Tha children chldra of today are having handed down to them theories of lite that atS upon money to make matt them happy haPit to ao an extent estat tnt that la I terrible to If the mother mothr who gives give her hr child elaborate and ald costly toys toy vs would ouM only look lank ok shad she would save save hur hr Innocent little one mho much trouble of nt I mind and perhaps much deterioration of ot character c r If It the she ah would w t teach aoh him hi hito I to amuse himself by contriving I games am for himself by weaving his bis own OWR i little IIttI dream dram around a stick Mick or at a 11 tin Ih Ihn can n she ahe would cultivate something II In him that would give him a source of Imaginative happiness p which would wt often brighten hie hta road for tor him blat TIM Tic Themore more simple aim pie a child t Is brought brou bt up the fewer costly toys toy he be haa Ms the tile better for tor him In the th long loa run rum Me Xe K will l kern ara ra to play th the old simple games to is build band east leu to fight greet great t l with wooden swords to rote his bis Imagination Imagination ct nation continually of ot lemming learning to crave e tor for excite cl lest t and aM new ex u extravagances savageness A great deal may ma be b done dOlle by bl a Ju ja Judicious mother who makes hakes Jaak up her mind MaiM to refuse tuM her a multitude of toys toy She he be will lay Ia the th foundation of a deer r rand and end happier pier character than t win will be built up by the mother who gives give Ie reek reck recklessly lens lessly a store of perishable and NIell MtV lv pis plaything things s